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Merry Christmas everybody. It’s my 3rd day back to Vancouver. I’m trying to update this blog FIRSTLY written in September.

To write something about Raspberry Pi is to say GOOD BYE to my Raspberry Pi 3B, and WELCOME Raspberry Pi 4 at the same time. Our target today is to build an AI edge computing end as the following video:

Raspberry Pi 3B with Intel Movidius NCS and openVINO

1. Raspberry Pi 3B+ vs. Raspberry Pi 4

Before everythig starts, let’s carry out a simple comparison between Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 3B+.

2. Movidius Neural Compute Stick on Raspberry Pi 4

Then, we just follow the following 2 blogs Run NCS Applications on Raspberry Pi and Adding AI to the Raspberry Pi with the Movidius Neural Compute Stick to utilize the outdated Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick:

Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick 1

Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick 1 is NOT listed on Intel’s official website any more. But github support for Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick 1 can be found at https://github.com/movidius/ncsdk.

2.1 NCSDK Installation

We FIRST need to have ncsdk installed. Yup, here, as described in Run NCS Applications on Raspberry Pi, we carry out the installation directly under folder ...../ncsdk/api/src.

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➜  src git:(ncsdk2) ✗ make -j4
NCSDK FW successfully installed
➜  sudo make install

2.2 Test NCSDK Example Apps

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➜  python hello_ncs.py
Hello NCS! Device opened normally.
Goodbye NCS! Device closed normally.
NCS device working.

3. Caffe Support

3.1 Prerequisite Packages

Prerequisite:

For simplicity, you can grab the above three packages directly from Raspbian’s repository. However, it seems the default boost from Raspbian’s repository does NOT support python3 but ONLY python2. Therefore, in my case, I built boost 1.71, flann 1.9.1 and OpenCV 4.1.1 from sractch from source.

3.2 Cross-compile For flann

The reason why we need to cross-compile flann is because of the limited memory of Raspberry Pi 3B.

In my case, I’m using crosstool-NG and following blog: RPi Linaro GCC Compilation to carry out my cross-compiling. Details about cross-compiling can be found in my next blog Build Toolchain Using Crosstool-NG

3.2.1 Additional Issue: BCM2837 is detected as BCM2835

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➜  ~ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 38.40
Features	: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd03
CPU revision	: 4

processor	: 1
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 38.40
Features	: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd03
CPU revision	: 4

processor	: 2
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 38.40
Features	: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd03
CPU revision	: 4

processor	: 3
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 38.40
Features	: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd03
CPU revision	: 4

Hardware	: BCM2835
Revision	: a22082
Serial		: 000000003fc1b876

This issue seems to be an OLD topic. More details about the development history of Raspberry Pi can be found on Wikipedia.

3.3 Build Caffe From Source

Then, we build Caffe 1 from source.

4. Tensorflow Support

4.2 Test Simple Image Classification

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The autumn in both Vancouver and Seattle is gorgeous…

Overview Seattle on Space Needle Around Space Needle
Overview Seattle on Space Needle Around Space Needle
Space Needle So Heavy
Space Needle So Heavy
Ferris Wheel Pier 55
Ferris Wheel Pier 55
Vancouver Maple UBC Poisonous Mushroom
Vancouver Maple UBC Poisonous Mushroom

Alright, let’s rapidly test Detectron2.

Installation is detailedly summarized in INSTALL.md.

We can simply follow GETTING_STARTED.md for some simple demonstrations. Make sure you’ve downloaded the demo pictures from Detectron1 demo and save under Detectron2’s folder demo.

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longervision-GT72-6QE% python demo/demo.py --config-file configs/COCO-InstanceSegmentation/mask_rcnn_R_50_FPN_3x.yaml \
  --input ./demo/17790319373_bd19b24cfc_k.jpg \
  --output ./result.jpg \
  --opts MODEL.WEIGHTS detectron2://COCO-InstanceSegmentation/mask_rcnn_R_50_FPN_3x/137849600/model_final_f10217.pkl
[10/13 17:47:01 detectron2]: Arguments: Namespace(confidence_threshold=0.5, config_file='configs/COCO-InstanceSegmentation/mask_rcnn_R_50_FPN_3x.yaml', input=['./demo/17790319373_bd19b24cfc_k.jpg'], opts=['MODEL.WEIGHTS', 'detectron2://COCO-InstanceSegmentation/mask_rcnn_R_50_FPN_3x/137849600/model_final_f10217.pkl'], output='./result.jpg', video_input=None, webcam=False)
WARNING [10/13 17:47:01 d2.config.compat]: Config 'configs/COCO-InstanceSegmentation/mask_rcnn_R_50_FPN_3x.yaml' has no VERSION. Assuming it to be compatible with latest v2.
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100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00,  2.59it/s]

Let’s take a look at the result:

17790319373_bd19b24cfc_k

And of course, my pictures taken in Seattle and Vancouver:

Overview Seattle on Space Needle Around Space Needle
Overview Seattle on Space Needle Around Space Needle
Space Needle So Heavy
Space Needle So Heavy
Ferris Wheel Pier 55
Ferris Wheel Pier 55
Vancouver Maple UBC Poisonous Mushroom

Oooooops… it seems there are still quite a lot of ERROR detections…
Anyway… tomorrow, 热干面. Google translator: Hot Noodles with Sesame Paste…

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Flying back to China soon. Before leaving, here comes a simple blog testing Tensorflow 2.0. In this blog, I strictly follow Amita Kapoor and Ajit Jaokar’s free book Getting Started with TensorFlow 2.0.

For simplicity, let’s try it out directly:

1. Tensorflow 2.0

2. Tensorflow Dataset

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Today, we’re going to build our own toolchain using crosstool-NG. There are so many cases that we want to build a particular toolchain for a specific embedded system development board. One MOST important reason for that is probably because the specific development board has limited resource to build upon, therefore, the time-consumption to build some software on the development board is VERY inefficient. In the other way around, cross compiling on the host PC is MORE efficient with respective to the time-consumption.

In this blog, for simplicity, we take Raspberry Pi 3B as our demo development board, for which we are building the cross compiler. Some references can be found at:

1. Installation

How to install crosstool-NG are thoroughly summarized at its official website. In my case, I had it installed under folder /opt/compilers/crosstool-ng. Let’s take a look:

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longervision-GT72-6QE% pwd
/opt/compilers/crosstool-ng
longervision-GT72-6QE% ls
bin  libexec  share
longervision-GT72-6QE% ls bin
ct-ng

And make sure /opt/compilers/crosstool-ng/bin is under environment variable PATH.

2. Configuration

Under any directory that you want to save your .config file, we can configure our target cross compiler.

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longervision-GT72-6QE% ct-ng menuconfig

Crosstool-NG

According to elinux: RPi Linaro GCC Compilation, we need to do the following selections:

  • Paths and misc options:

    • Try features marked as EXPERIMENTAL: ticked
    • Prefix directory: input the full path where you want to save the built toolchains
    • Number of parallel jobs: 4. Sorry that I’ve NO idea if this is the number of cores on Raspberry Pi 3B, but Raspberry Pi 3B does have 4 cores.

  • Target options:

    • Target Architecture: arm
    • Default instruction set mode: arm
    • Use EABI: ticked
    • append hf to the tuple (EXPERIMENTAL): ticked
    • Endianness: Little endian
    • Bitness: 32-bit
    • Emit assembly for CPU: cortex-a53
    • Use specific FPU: vfp
    • Floating point: hardware (FPU)

  • Toolchain options:

    • Tuple’s vendor string: rpi

  • Operating System

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        Linux raspberrypi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

  • Binary utilities:

    • Binary format: ELF
    • Version of binutils: 2.31.1
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        Package: binutils
        Version: 2.31.1-16+rpi1
        Priority: optional
        Section: devel
        Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
        Installed-Size: 95.2 kB
        Provides: binutils-gold, elf-binutils
        Depends: binutils-common (= 2.31.1-16+rpi1), libbinutils (= 2.31.1-16+rpi1), binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf (= 2.31.1-16+rpi1)
        Suggests: binutils-doc (>= 2.31.1-16+rpi1)
        Conflicts: binutils-multiarch (<< 2.27-8), modutils (<< 2.4.19-1)
        Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
        Download-Size: 56.9 kB
        APT-Manual-Installed: no
        APT-Sources: http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf Packages
        Description: GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities
        The programs in this package are used to assemble, link and manipulate
        binary and object files.  They may be used in conjunction with a compiler
        and various libraries to build programs.

  • C-library:

    • C library: glibc
    • Version of glibc: 2.28
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        Package: libc-bin
        Version: 2.28-10+rpi1
        Priority: required
        Essential: yes
        Section: libs
        Source: glibc
        Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
        Installed-Size: 3,015 kB
        Depends: libc6 (>> 2.28), libc6 (<< 2.29)
        Recommends: manpages
        Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
        Download-Size: 657 kB
        APT-Manual-Installed: yes
        APT-Sources: http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf Packages
        Description: GNU C Library: Binaries
        This package contains utility programs related to the GNU C Library.
        .
        * catchsegv: catch segmentation faults in programs
        * getconf: query system configuration variables
        * getent: get entries from administrative databases
        * iconv, iconvconfig: convert between character encodings
        * ldd, ldconfig: print/configure shared library dependencies
        * locale, localedef: show/generate locale definitions
        * tzselect, zdump, zic: select/dump/compile time zones

  • C compiler:

    • Show gcc versions from: GNU
    • Version of gcc: 8.3.0
    • gcc extra config: --with-float=hard
    • Link libstdc++ statically into the gcc binary: tick
    • C++: tick
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    Package: gcc
    Version: 4:8.3.0-1+rpi2
    Priority: optional
    Section: devel
    Source: gcc-defaults (1.181+rpi2)
    Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org>
    Installed-Size: 46.1 kB
    Provides: c-compiler, gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf (= 4:8.3.0-1+rpi2)
    Depends: cpp (= 4:8.3.0-1+rpi2), gcc-8 (>= 8.3.0-1~)
    Recommends: libc6-dev | libc-dev
    Suggests: gcc-multilib, make, manpages-dev, autoconf, automake, libtool, flex, bison, gdb, gcc-doc
    Conflicts: gcc-doc (<< 1:2.95.3)
    Download-Size: 5,200 B
    APT-Manual-Installed: no
    APT-Sources: http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf Packages
    Description: GNU C compiler
    This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C.
    .
    This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C compiler.

After we save the configuration to file .config, we Exit the crosstool-NG configuration dialog.

3. Build

Please remember to:

  • unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH before building. Otherwise, you’ll meet some ERROR messages.
  • mkdir ~/src before building. Otherwise, whenever you tried to rerun ct-ng build, you’ll have to download ALL required packages from scratch.
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longervision-GT72-6QE% ct-ng build
[INFO ]  Performing some trivial sanity checks
[WARN ]  Number of open files 1024 may not be sufficient to build the toolchain; increasing to 2048
[INFO ]  Build started 20190906.014128
[INFO ]  Building environment variables
[EXTRA]  Preparing working directories
[EXTRA]  Installing user-supplied crosstool-NG configuration
[EXTRA]  =================================================================
[EXTRA]  Dumping internal crosstool-NG configuration
[EXTRA]    Building a toolchain for:
[EXTRA]      build  = x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
[EXTRA]      host   = x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
[EXTRA]      target = arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf
[EXTRA]  Dumping internal crosstool-NG configuration: done in 0.07s (at 00:01)
[INFO ]  =================================================================
[INFO ]  Retrieving needed toolchain components' tarballs
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[INFO ]  Finalizing the toolchain's directory: done in 1.80s (at 24:52)
[INFO ]  Build completed at 20190906.020619
[INFO ]  (elapsed: 24:51.86)
[INFO ]  Finishing installation (may take a few seconds)...
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This process may take a while. I’m going to sleep tonight. Continue tomorrow…

Alright, let’s continue today. Glad to know it’s built successfully.

Let’s FIRST take a look at what’s under the current folder.

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build.log  rpi.config

And then, let’s take a look at what’s built under the specified destination folder.

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arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (crosstool-NG 1.24.0.6-afaf7b9) 8.3.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-g++ (crosstool-NG 1.24.0.6-afaf7b9) 8.3.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Additional issue: It seems current crosstool-NG does NOT officially support Python. Please refer to my issue at crosstool-NG

4. Compile/Build a Package with Generated Toolchain

For most of the packages nowadays, they are

  • either supported by make: ./configure -> make -> make install
  • or supported by CMake: mkdir build -> cd build -> ccmake ../ -> make -> make install

How to use our generated toolchain to compile/build our target packages?

Today, we’re going to take the package flann as an example, which are to be built with CMake.

4.1 CMakeLists.txt Modification

4.1.1 CMake Toolchains - Cross Compiling for Linux

By following CMake Toolchains - Cross Compiling for Linux, we FIRST modify flann CMakeLists.txt a bit by adding the following lines before project(flann).

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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

if(COMMAND cmake_policy)
    cmake_policy(SET CMP0003 NEW)
endif(COMMAND cmake_policy)

set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Linux)
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR arm)

set(CMAKE_SYSROOT ....../arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot)
set(CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX ....../stage)

set(tools /opt/compilers/RPi)
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER ${tools}/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-gcc)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER ${tools}/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-g++)

set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE ONLY)

set(CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_TARGET_TYPE "STATIC_LIBRARY")

project(flann)
string(TOLOWER ${PROJECT_NAME} PROJECT_NAME_LOWER)
  • CMAKE_SYSROOT specify the sysroot directory which emulate your target environment, here, Raspberry Pi 3B
  • CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX is where the STAGING results store, for the reason that final results may require to be built in multiple stages. You may refer to Linux From Scratch for further background knowledge about that.
  • tools actually specify the building tool directory. Making sure all generated cross compiling tools are under folder ${tools}/bin.

4.1.2 Ignore hdf5

In addition, for the emulated Raspberry Pi 3B sysroot, hdf5 is NOT supported. Therefore, let’s simply comment out the following line in flann CMakeLists.txt.

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4.2 Cross Compile

Now, let’s start cross-compiling flann.

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BUILD_CUDA_LIB                  *OFF
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BUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS           *ON
BUILD_TESTS                     *OFF
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CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE                *RelWithDebInfo
CMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE            *ON
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_AR           */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_RANLIB       */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS                 *-I/usr/include
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG           *-g
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_MINSIZEREL      *-Os -DNDEBUG
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE         *-O3 -DNDEBUG
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO  *-O2 -g -DNDEBUG
CMAKE_C_COMPILER_AR             */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar
CMAKE_C_COMPILER_RANLIB         */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib
CMAKE_C_FLAGS                   *-I/usr/include
CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG             *-g
CMAKE_C_FLAGS_MINSIZEREL        *-Os -DNDEBUG
CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE           *-O3 -DNDEBUG
CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO    *-O2 -g -DNDEBUG
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS          *
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG    *
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_MINSIZE  *  
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE  *     
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELWITH  *
CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS   *OFF
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX            */usr/local
CMAKE_LINKER                    */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-ld
CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM              */usr/bin/make
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS       *    
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBU  *  
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS_MINS  *   
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELE  *    
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELW  * 
CMAKE_NM                        */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-nm
CMAKE_OBJCOPY                   */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy
CMAKE_OBJDUMP                   */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-objdump
CMAKE_RANLIB                    */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS       *    
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBU  *
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_MINS  *   
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_RELE  *
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_RELW  *   
CMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH        *OFF
CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH                *OFF
CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS       *
CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBU  *
CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS_MINS  * 
CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS_RELE  *
CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS_RELW  *
CMAKE_STRIP                     */opt/compilers/RPi/bin/arm-rpi-linux-gnueabihf-strip
CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE          *ON
CPACK_SOURCE_RPM                *OFF
CPACK_SOURCE_TBZ2               *ON
CPACK_SOURCE_TGZ                *ON
CPACK_SOURCE_TXZ                *ON 
CPACK_SOURCE_TZ                 *ON
CPACK_SOURCE_ZIP                *OFF
DPKG_PROGRAM                    */usr/bin/dpkg
NSIS_PROGRAM                    */usr/bin/makensis
NVCC_COMPILER_BINDIR            *
PACKAGE_MAKER_PROGRAM           *PACKAGE_MAKER_PROGRAM-NOTFOUND
PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE           */usr/bin/pkg-config
PYTHON_EXECUTABLE               */usr/bin/python
RPM_PROGRAM                     *RPM_PROGRAM-NOTFOUND
USE_MPI                         *OFF
USE_OPENMP                      *OFF

The LAST step before make is to modify some of the parameters accordingly, in my case:

  • BUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS: ON -> OFF
  • CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS: -I/usr/include (for lz4.h from my host Ubuntu 19.04)
  • CMAKE_C_FLAGS: -I/usr/include (for lz4.h from my host Ubuntu 19.04)
  • CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE: OFF -> ON
  • CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: /usr/local/ -> under which directory you want to install, which can be IGNORED for now

Now, press c, you’ll see

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A warining of missing hdf5 is clearly reasonable and acceptable. Then press g.

Finally, it’s the time for us to cross build flann.

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                                                       ^
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VERY Important:

  • If you build flann from source on a Raspberry Pi 3B, your system is going to hang HERE, possibly due to lack of memory..
  • Raspberry Pi 3B has 4 cores ONLY, but now you can use MORE cores on your host PC, which is clearly one advantage of using cross compiling.

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You can now:

  • make install to install the built/generated libraries installed under CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
  • copy and paste the built/generated libraries onto Raspberry Pi 3B and use it directly.

BTW: do NOT forget to install the header files.

5. Additional Issues

Multilib/multiarch seems to be problematic nowadays. Please pay attention to Multilib/multiarch. Some related issues are enumuated as the end of this blog.

Alright, that’s all for today. Let me go to bed. Good bye…

Posted on | Edited on | In ,

Today, we are going to talk about a fabulous project: stereo vision on a zynq-7010 board.

1. VCSBC nano Z-RH-2

1.1 Hardware

We are using a VCSBC nano Z-RH-2 board for today’s experiment. The board adopted looks like the following:

Front Back Connector
Front Back Connector

More detailed specifications, please refer to Vision Components’s official website.

1.2 Software

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user@192.168.1.79's password: 

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Thu Aug 29 18:17:49 2019 from 192.168.1.200
user@VC-Z:~$

Currently, VC provides Linux Kernel 3.14.79.

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Linux VC-Z 3.14.79-vc-z #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 24 18:33:06 CEST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

And, let’s take a look at the dual ARMv7 CPUs on zynq-7010.

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processor	: 0
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 1725.23
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpd32 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

processor	: 1
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 1725.23
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpd32 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

Hardware	: Xilinx Zynq Platform
Revision	: 0000
Serial		: 0000000000000000

2. Stereo Vision

Sorry everybody. Today, I ONLY test stereo vision on ARM. I’ll try to figure out how to flash an open source IP of stereo vision onto zynq-7010, or write my own ASAP.

Hmmmmmmmm… It’s better I keep my code in dark???

2.1 Classical Image Pairs

Let’s try out the stereo vision on some .pgm image pairs FIRST.

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width= 1282
height= 1110
fps: 0.119696
process: 398651

My GOD… It’s UNBELIEVABLY SLOW.

aloe_left aloe_right
aloe_left aloe_right
aloe_left Stereo aloe_right Stereo
aloe_left stereo aloe_right stereo

2.2 Live Video Pairs

The BEST demo code to test Vision Componenets Stereo Vision is Eclipse_Example_Projects_VC_Z.

2.2.1 imageCaptureTest

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#./imageCaptureTest 
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  VCCapt @0xbe87153c                                    Sensor Count: 2  
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                  Camera Type :  NANO Z RH Rev.0                         
                Sensor 0 Type :  E2V_EV76C560ABT_1_0                     
                Sensor 1 Type :  E2V_EV76C560ABT_1_0                     
                                                                         
   Trigger        Source      :  IMM                                     
                                                                         
     ___________________________________________________________________ 
     Sensor[ 0]:         Shutter:     12345 us,  Gain: 0.00              
                                                                         
                   x0, y0       :  (    0,    0)                         
            binX,     binY      :  (    1,    1)                         
        subsmplX, subsmplY, flip:  (    1,    1,0x00)                    
    (img)          dx, dy, pitch:  ( 1280, 1024), 1280                   
                                                                         
    (img) st, ccmp1, ccmp2, type:  0xb6b03080, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0 
                                                                         
      Description                                                        
       Sen dx, Sen dy, Sen pitch:   1280, 1024, 1280                     
       Max dx, Max dy, Max pitch:   1280, 1024, 1280                     
    Binning Max (dx, dy), Square:      2,    1,    1                     
    Subsmpl Max (dx, dy), Square:      8,    8,    0                     
       Init       st,ccmp1,ccmp2:  0xb6b03080, 0x00000000, 0x00000000    
       Init  Shutter, Gain, Type:       10000,  0.00, GREY   (0)         
                  FD, Port, Type:  4, 0, E2V_EV76C560ABT_1_0             
                                                                         
      Volatile Description                                               
            requestCaptID, State:          0, IDLE                       
          captId, TimestampTicks:          0,   6476832867277            
                                                                         
      Externals Description                                              
            pos[0-3], angle[0-2]:  [ 0.00, 0.00, 0.00],[  0.0,  0.0]     
                                                                         
     ___________________________________________________________________ 
     Sensor[ 1]:         Shutter:     10000 us,  Gain: 0.00              
                                                                         
                   x0, y0       :  (    0,    0)                         
            binX,     binY      :  (    1,    1)                         
        subsmplX, subsmplY, flip:  (    1,    1,0x00)                    
    (img)          dx, dy, pitch:  ( 1280, 1024), 1280                   
                                                                         
    (img) st, ccmp1, ccmp2, type:  0xb69c2080, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0 
                                                                         
      Description                                                        
       Sen dx, Sen dy, Sen pitch:   1280, 1024, 1280                     
       Max dx, Max dy, Max pitch:   1280, 1024, 1280                     
    Binning Max (dx, dy), Square:      2,    1,    1                     
    Subsmpl Max (dx, dy), Square:      8,    8,    0                     
       Init       st,ccmp1,ccmp2:  0xb69c2080, 0x00000000, 0x00000000    
       Init  Shutter, Gain, Type:       10000,  0.00, GREY   (0)         
                  FD, Port, Type:  5, 1, E2V_EV76C560ABT_1_0             
                                                                         
      Volatile Description                                               
            requestCaptID, State:          0, IDLE                       
          captId, TimestampTicks:          0,   6476832867284            
                                                                         
      Externals Description                                              
            pos[0-3], angle[0-2]:  [ 0.00, 0.00, 0.00],[  0.0,  0.0]     
                                                                         
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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2.2.2 imageCaptFPS

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03:41:47[root@VC-Z] /home/user/vc/Eclipse_Example_Projects_VC_Z/imageCaptFPS
#./imageCaptFPS 
dy= 1024  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     780685us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.745525fps.

dy= 768  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     789899us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734402fps.

dy= 640  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     790000us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734283fps.

dy= 512  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     790012us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734268fps.

dy= 384  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     790005us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734280fps.

dy= 256  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     790000us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734283fps.

dy= 192  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     790021us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734257fps.

dy= 128  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     789984us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734303fps.

dy= 64  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     789987us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734299fps.

dy= 32  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     789997us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734287fps.

dy= 16  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     790017us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734264fps.

dy= 8  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     790002us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734280fps.

dy= 4  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     789985us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734303fps.

dy= 2  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     789997us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734287fps.

dy= 1  Clock=100000000  Acquisiton&Copy Duration:         28s     789994us  for 1000 Cycles ==  34.734291fps.

The above 2 examples are directly run on Vision Components’s board without display, for the given cable is of VGA connector, which is ALREADY outdated for many years. Therefore, in order to show the captured image pairs, in the next section, we’ll have to stream the captured data to a host computer, and display the real-time video pairs.

2.3 Stream/Display From Host Computer

Due to Vision Componenets’ Official documentation VCLinux_Getting_Started.pdf, images captured from camera can be displayed on a remote hosting PC.

2.3.1 Eclipse_Example_Projects_VC_Z (Not Preferred)

Eclipse_Example_Projects_VC_Z.zip provides some source code, which displays images captured from camera on the hosting PC’s Eclipse, by adding the camera as a Remote System to Eclipse.
Anyway, by using this method, you need to prepare ALL the following software and packages in advance.

2.3.2 vcimgnetclient.py

Besides the above method, a much more straightforward method is to adopt python script vcimgnetclient.py provided by Vision Components. However, vcimgnetclient.py is ONLY python2 compatible, and Vision Components has NO plan to provide a python3 compatible version of vcimgnetclient.py.

Therefore, the KEY to use the 2nd method is to make vcimgnetclient.py python3 compatible.

2.3.2.1 PyGTK to PyGTK3

1) 2to3
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longervision-GT72-6QE% 2to3 vcimgnetclient.py
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: buffer
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: idioms
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: set_literal
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: ws_comma
RefactoringTool: Refactored vcimgnetclient.py
--- vcimgnetclient.py	(original)
+++ vcimgnetclient.py	(refactored)
@@ -274,11 +274,11 @@
             if(chk_rgb_true):
                 dy /= 3
                 #img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(izip(mv_img_data[2 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[1 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])))
-                img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(zip(mv_img_data[2 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[1 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])))
+                img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(list(zip(mv_img_data[2 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[1 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:]))))
             else:
                 dy /= 1
                 #img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(izip(mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])))
-            img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(zip(mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])))
+            img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(list(zip(mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:]))))
             cpb = Gdk.pixbuf_new_from_data(buffer(img_data_packed), Gdk.COLORSPACE_RGB, False, 8, dx, dy, 3*pitch)
             cpb.save(path, "png")
             
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                         dy /= 3
                         mv_img_data = memoryview(img['data'])
                         #img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(izip(mv_img_data[2 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[1 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])))
-                        img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(zip(mv_img_data[2 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[1 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])))
+                        img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(list(zip(mv_img_data[2 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[1 * pitch * dy:], mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:]))))
                         self.area.window.draw_rgb_image(gc, 0,0, dx,dy, Gdk.RGB_DITHER_NONE, buffer(img_data_packed),3*pitch,0,0)
                     else:
                         if('flscol'==self.how_select):
                             mv_img_data = memoryview(img['data']).tolist()
-                            r_data = map(falsecolor_r,mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])
-                            g_data = map(falsecolor_g,mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])
-                            b_data = map(falsecolor_b,mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:])
+                            r_data = list(map(falsecolor_r,mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:]))
+                            g_data = list(map(falsecolor_g,mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:]))
+                            b_data = list(map(falsecolor_b,mv_img_data[0 * pitch * dy:]))
                             #img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(izip(r_data, g_data, b_data)))
-                            img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(zip(r_data, g_data, b_data)))
+                            img_data_packed = bytearray(chain.from_iterable(list(zip(r_data, g_data, b_data))))
                             self.area.window.draw_rgb_image(gc, 0,0, dx,dy, Gdk.RGB_DITHER_NONE, buffer(img_data_packed),3*pitch,0,0)
                         else: #grey
                             self.area.window.draw_gray_image(gc, 0,0, 
RefactoringTool: Files that need to be modified:
RefactoringTool: vcimgnetclient.py
2) pygi-convert

Please refer to General Porting Tips

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3) Try Running
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vcimgnetclient.py:330: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "type" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  self.window =  Gtk.Window(Gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL)
vcimgnetclient.py:628: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "label" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  mfQuit =  Gtk.MenuItem("Quit")
vcimgnetclient.py:629: PyGIDeprecationWarning: Using non GObject arguments for connect_object() is deprecated, use: connect_data(signal, callback, data, connect_flags=GObject.ConnectFlags.SWAPPED)
  mfQuit.connect_object("activate", lambda a: Gtk.main_quit(), "mfQuit")
vcimgnetclient.py:637: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "label" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  bmf = Gtk.MenuItem("File")
vcimgnetclient.py:646: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "label" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  mhAbout =  Gtk.MenuItem("About")
vcimgnetclient.py:654: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "label" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  bmh = Gtk.MenuItem("Help")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "vcimgnetclient.py", line 812, in <module>
    Main()
  File "vcimgnetclient.py", line 719, in __init__
    Frontend.__init__(self, self.img_access)
  File "vcimgnetclient.py", line 301, in __init__
    self.winMain = self.WinMain(arg_img_access, self.dialog)
  File "vcimgnetclient.py", line 341, in __init__
    vbox.pack_start(self.menu_bar, False, False)
TypeError: Gtk.Box.pack_start() takes exactly 5 arguments (4 given)
4)

For ALL vbox.pack_start, add one parameter 0 at the end for each case. For instance:
vbox.pack_start(self.menu_bar, False, False)
to
vbox.pack_start(self.menu_bar, False, False, 0)

Oh my god … There are STILL SO MANY things to do, in order to make vcimgnetclient.py Python3 compatible. Therefore, I implement my own vcimgnetclient_qt.py based on PyQt5.

2.3.3 Longer Vision’s vcimgnetclient_qt.py

2.3.3.1 Server

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#whoami
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22:42:24[root@VC-Z] /home/user
#vcimgnetsrv &
[1] 896

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  896 pts/0    00:00:00 vcimgnetsrv

22:42:40[root@VC-Z] /home/user
#vctp
Acquisiton&Copy Duration:          4s      39644us  for 100 Cycles ==  24.754656fps.

Acquisiton&Copy Duration:          4s      34709us  for 100 Cycles ==  24.784935fps.
......

2.3.3.2 Client

Sorry, I’m NOT going to show my code, but the performance can be demonstrated as follows:

Longer Vision Technology - Vision Component's Image Grabber - PyQt5

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Oh-my-god, kaggle competition about diabetis… Hmmm, I have something to do these days… It’s also a GOOD chance for me to learn some medical terms… In this blog, we’re going to try out this kaggle competition - APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection.

1. Pre-processing Diabetic Retinopathy Images

It’s NOT hard for us to locate APTOS [UpdatedV14] Preprocessing- Ben’s & Cropping, which seems to me a professional snippet of code preprocessing diabetic retinopathy images. Let’s just try it out directly.

1.1 Implementation

The implementation is cited directly from APTOS [UpdatedV14] Preprocessing- Ben’s & Cropping, with trivial modifications. You are welcome to download my snippet of code here.

1.2 Show Off Intermediately Processed Images

5 Categories Diabetic Retinopathy Concepts
5 Categories Diabetic Retinopathy Concepts
Original Images in Color Original Images in Gray Scale
Original Images in Color Original Images in Gray Scale
Ben Graham’s Preprocessing for Gray Scale Images Ben Graham’s Preprocessing for Color Images
Ben Graham's Preprocessing for Gray Scale Images Ben Graham's Preprocessing for Color Images
Circle Crop Circle Crop High Resolution
Circle Crop Circle Crop High Resolution
Resized Train Resized Train High Resolution
Resized Train Resized Train High Resolution

Some extentions about diabetic retinopathy are given in the end:

Heatmap Inconsistency
Heatmap Inconsistency

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Today’s weather is perfect for this party: annual summer alumni party of Wuhan University.

Alumni Me
Alumni Me

Today, I’ve got another GOOD news: our ARM Linux board based on AllWinner H3 is demonstrated successful.

1. Hardware

2.1 Appearance

Yeah, this is how OUR OWN board looks like:

Longer Vision Technology AllWinner H3 Board

2.2 Specifications

From the appearance, it’s NOT hard to tell the specifications:

Device Version Units
USB 2.0 2
Wired 100Mbps 1
HDMI 1
Power Adaptor 5V 1

2. Flash Armbian Debian

2.1 Armbian for AllWinner H3

Armbian provides abundant info for AllWinner H3:

2.2 Armbian for Orange Pi PC

I’m so lucky today that I tried ONLY ONE TIME and have this Debian Buster with Armbian Linux for Orange Pi PC successfully installed and run on our board. You just need to download and extract Armbian_5.91_Orangepipc_Debian_buster_next_4.19.59.img out, and have it installed by dd.

2.3 Longer Vision Technology H3 Board Test

It’s NOT hard to find out your board’s IP address

  • either from within your router
  • or boot your board with a monitor and run the command ip -c address.

Now, you should be able to SSH into your H3 baord directly as follows:

SSH Into LVT H3 Board

After you run

  • sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade
  • sudo armbian-config

you should be able to upgrade your Debian Buster with Armbian Linux from 4.19.59-sunxi to 4.19.62-sunxi.

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longervision@192.168.1.96's password: 
  ___  ____  _   ____   ____ 
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| | | | |_) | | | |_) | |    
| |_| |  __/| | |  __/| |___ 
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Welcome to Debian Buster with Armbian Linux 4.19.62-sunxi
System load:   0.16 0.12 0.08  	Up time:       6 min		
Memory usage:  18 % of 460MB  	IP:            192.168.1.96
CPU temp:      79°C           	
Usage of /:    2% of 58G    	

Last login: Sun Aug 25 20:13:29 2019 from 192.168.1.200

3. Issues

It’s a kind of late. Let me finish this up for now ASAP.

3.1 Hardware Issues

  • ONLY 1 USB 2.0 port is working properly.
  • It’s EASY to reach the critical temperature, as showing:

SSH Into LVT H3 Board

3.2

We really need a better low-cost chip to provide the support for:

  • USB 3.0
  • GigE

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JeVois is an ARM Linux based camera module, delivered by JeVois Inc.. So far, this is the ONLY ARM Linux based camera module that I’m recommending, for its well-designed community as well as plenty of source code on Github.

1. Specifications

Clearly:

2. Getting Started with Jevois

The BEST place to start with JeVois is the following Youtube video:

I’m NOT going to repeat this step-by-step setup but move forward to the demonstration step directly.

3. Connect JeVois with Host

After having flashed JeVois’s TF card with the LATEST Linux image, we connect JeVois camera module into the laptop. This TF card will NOT mount onto the computer as a device automatically, but can be detected by lsusb as follows:

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Bus 001 Device 016: ID 1d6b:0102 Linux Foundation EEM Gadget
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4. Simple Demonstration

4.1 Guvcview

Get Started Image Control Default Settings
JeVois Get Started JeVois Image Control
Video Control Settings 640x480 Video Control Settings 640x360
JeVois Video Control 640x480 JeVois Video Control 640x360

4.2 JeVois Inventor

4.2.1 JeVois Tutorial

Again, a Youtube video is suggested to follow for the demonstration:

4.2.2 My Test

You can either download JeVois Inventor directly from the Official Website, or like me, build JeVois Inventor source code from scratch, based on my own QT, etc. Anyway, after JeVois Inventor has been successfully installed, it’s the time for us to test it out.

JeVois Inventor Info JeVois Inventor Parameters
JeVois Inventor Info JeVois Inventor Parameters
JeVois Inventor Console JeVois Inventor Camera
JeVois Inventor Console JeVois Inventor Camera
JeVois Inventor Config JeVois Inventor Code C++
JeVois Inventor Config JeVois Inventor Code C++
JeVois Inventor Code Python DNN JeVois Inventor System
JeVois Inventor Code Python DNN JeVois Inventor System
JeVois Inventor System Export SD Card JeVois Inventor System Export SD Card Content
JeVois Inventor System Export SD Card JeVois Inventor System Export SD Card Content

Being quite busy these days. Seriously, ARM board based on AllWinner H3 from my company Longer Vision is manufactured, and under test. Let’s have some fun.

In the end, better to listen to some music while blogging.

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0. Preface

My ESP32-Cam has finally arrived today. The brand of AI Thinker has been demonstrated to be reliable.

In fact, I strictly followed randomnerdtutorials’s blog ESP32-CAM Video Streaming and Face Recognition with Arduino IDE to demonstrate this low-cost video surveillance camera. So, in this blog, I ONLY enumerate some KEY POINTS that should be emphasized.

1. Connection

1.1 Schematic

ESP32-Cam can be connected to my laptop exactly the same as shown (cited directly from ESP32-CAM Video Streaming and Face Recognition with Arduino IDE).

ESP32-CAM-wiring-FTDI Schematic

1.2 Real Connection

The real connection looks as:

ESP32-CAM-wiring-FTDI Real Connection

1.3 lsusb

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Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 Serial (UART) IC
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2. Key Points on Flashing ESP32-Cam

2.1 Code Modification

Example code CameraWebServer should be trivially modified as:

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// Select camera model
//#define CAMERA_MODEL_WROVER_KIT
//#define CAMERA_MODEL_ESP_EYE
//#define CAMERA_MODEL_M5STACK_PSRAM
//#define CAMERA_MODEL_M5STACK_WIDE
#define CAMERA_MODEL_AI_THINKER

2.2 Verify/Compile and Upload

2.2.1 Verify/Compile

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Sketch uses 2241942 bytes (71%) of program storage space. Maximum is 3145728 bytes.
Global variables use 52696 bytes (16%) of dynamic memory, leaving 274984 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 327680 bytes.

2.2.2 Upload

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esptool.py v2.6
Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Connecting....
Chip is ESP32D0WDQ5 (revision 1)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
MAC: c4:4f:33:13:32:7d
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Configuring flash size...
Auto-detected Flash size: 4MB
Compressed 8192 bytes to 47...

Writing at 0x0000e000... (100 %)
Wrote 8192 bytes (47 compressed) at 0x0000e000 in 0.0 seconds (effective 4102.7 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.
Compressed 16832 bytes to 10888...

Writing at 0x00001000... (100 %)
Wrote 16832 bytes (10888 compressed) at 0x00001000 in 1.0 seconds (effective 138.0 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.
Compressed 2242064 bytes to 1795627...

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Hash of data verified.
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Wrote 3072 bytes (134 compressed) at 0x00008000 in 0.0 seconds (effective 1534.2 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.

Leaving...
Hard resetting via RTS pin...

2.3 Disconnect GPIO 0 from GND

Before testing the code, be sure to disconnect GPIO 0 from GND.

ESP32-CAM Disconnect

2.4 RESET ESP32-Cam Board

It’s VERY important that you open the Serial Monitor dialog to monitor the serial port. You will see the following outputs after resetting ESP32-Cam board.

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ets Jun  8 2016 00:22:57

rst:0x1 (POWERON_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee
clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DIO, clock div:1
load:0x3fff0018,len:4
load:0x3fff001c,len:1100
load:0x40078000,len:9232
load:0x40080400,len:6400
entry 0x400806a8

[E][sccb.c:154] SCCB_Write(): SCCB_Write Failed addr:0x30, reg:0xff, data:0x01, ret:-1
.........
WiFi connected
Starting web server on port: '80'
Starting stream server on port: '81'
Camera Ready! Use 'http://192.168.1.94' to connect

2.5 Video Streaming

By visiting the allocated IP address within any web browser, you’ll see the following picture:

ESP32-CAM OV2460

And you’ll notice the streaming info from serial port:

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ets Jun  8 2016 00:22:57

rst:0x1 (POWERON_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee
clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DIO, clock div:1
load:0x3fff0018,len:4
load:0x3fff001c,len:1100
load:0x40078000,len:9232
load:0x40080400,len:6400
entry 0x400806a8

[E][sccb.c:154] SCCB_Write(): SCCB_Write Failed addr:0x30, reg:0xff, data:0x01, ret:-1
.........
WiFi connected
Starting web server on port: '80'
Starting stream server on port: '81'
Camera Ready! Use 'http://192.168.1.94' to connect
MJPG: 5297B 63ms (15.9fps), AVG: 63ms (15.9fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5301B 40ms (25.0fps), AVG: 51ms (19.6fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5460B 39ms (25.6fps), AVG: 47ms (21.3fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5301B 40ms (25.0fps), AVG: 45ms (22.2fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5460B 43ms (23.3fps), AVG: 45ms (22.2fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5374B 41ms (24.4fps), AVG: 44ms (22.7fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5460B 37ms (27.0fps), AVG: 43ms (23.3fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5464B 43ms (23.3fps), AVG: 43ms (23.3fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5460B 37ms (27.0fps), AVG: 42ms (23.8fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5464B 46ms (21.7fps), AVG: 42ms (23.8fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5460B 30ms (33.3fps), AVG: 41ms (24.4fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5464B 43ms (23.3fps), AVG: 41ms (24.4fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5460B 39ms (25.6fps), AVG: 41ms (24.4fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5464B 37ms (27.0fps), AVG: 41ms (24.4fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
MJPG: 5460B 37ms (27.0fps), AVG: 41ms (24.4fps), 0+0+0+0=0 0
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3. Multiple Camera Streaming with Static IPs

I’m NOT going to talk about how to set up static IPs for IP cameras (well, yes, clearly, ESP32-Cam can be looked on as a low-cost video surveillance IP camera for sure). We ONLY demonstrate 4 ESP32-Cams are under streaming simultaneously with 4 statically allocated IP addresses.

We show the capturing effects FIRST:

4 ESP32-Cam Capturing Simultaneously

Then, we show how the cables are connected by using a power bank and an extra bread board. Here, FTDI is just used as a power adaptor to provide 5V voltage.

4 ESP32-Cams Connected to Power Bank

4 ESP32-Cams Cable Connection

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